Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on Thursday that he has approved a Russian proposal to hold talks in Moscow with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev next Thursday. The talks are taking place amid heightened tensions between the Caucasus neighbours, which have fought wars over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Baku and Yerevan are negotiating a peace deal brokered by the European Union and the United States, whose involvement in the Caucasus has angered Russia. The two former Soviet republics fought two wars, in the early nineties of the last century and in 2020.